its time for another art journal page. today i use the new stamps but also the golden oldies. an nice page with a lot of layers.
i start with creating my own collage paper. just stamp a whole bunch of stamps , i stamp with archival ink.

now another layer of color. you can use whatever you like. i just used gesso here and there to push back the images a bit. i use gelatos and use my finger to spread it arround, you can use a babywipe if you prefer.

i wanted to leave the images white first but decided to color them in with polychromos pencils. i needed to use transparent gesso to give the page some tooth. (i used gelmedium..to smooth to use pencils on)

The mirror image of the snail is done by stamping the snail on the sticky side of apost-it paper and then pressing that image on to my card. The image wasn't very crisp so I drew the lines with a black fine liner to get a better result.

This month Art Journey released several new stampsheets that match well with the
mushroom stamps. For my card I used the Fairytale People, Fairytale fungus and Ben's boots. I used part of a walking map and marked the route. I colored the
stamps with Zig markers, cut the, out and glued them to my card.

I am really happy with the last lay-out I did in my A5 journal. Normally I never make dubbel page layouts but after this one I think I might try it more often. I started the background with 2 different scrapbook papers on which I painted with acrylicpaint and used a leaf template. That created a background that inspired me to make this fantasy world.

The new butterfly fairy stamp combines perfectly with the hummingbird stamp. I made two almost identical cards with them. They ar practically the same, except for the colours I used for stamping the images. On the first card I stamped with dark brown ink. On the second one I used various colours to stamp the main images. Which one do you like best?